''Drepane'' is a genus of
fishes known commonly as the sicklefishes.
It is the only genus in the
perciform fish
Perciformes (), also called the Percomorpha or Acanthopteri, is an order or superorder of ray-finned fish. If considered a single order, they are the most numerous order of vertebrates, containing about 41% of all bony fish. Perciformes means ...
family Drepaneidae.
[ These fish occur in the Indian and western Pacific Oceans, and in the eastern Atlantic near Africa.
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Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:Bloch Bloch is a surname of German origin. Notable people with this surname include:
A–F
* (1859-1914), French rabbi
*Adele Bloch-Bauer (1881-1925), Austrian entrepreneur
*Albert Bloch (1882–1961), American painter
* (born 1972), German motor journal ...
& J. G. Schneider, 1801) – concertina fish
*''Drepane punctata
''Drepane punctata'', commonly known as spotted sicklefish, is a fish native to the Indo-Pacific and northern Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland ...
'' ( Linnaeus, 1758
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the sta ...
) – spotted sicklefish
See also
*List of fish families
This is a list of fish families sorted alphabetically by scientific name. There are 525 families in the list.
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L - M - N - O - P - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z
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References
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Ray-finned fish genera
Taxa named by Georges Cuvier